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To: Gus who wrote (3789)	2/8/2000 9:52:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (1) of 5195

Gus - provoked by Qualcommers who can not tolerate the notion that CMDA rests on the foundation of spread spectrum technology that has been around since the 1940s and 1950s -- public domain foundations, in other words -- because then that would mean that there are alternative paths that cast serious doubts about QCOM's ability to impose its royalty regime on the rest of the industry while it only has 10% of the global market. I'm a ERICY, NOK, CNXT, LSI, QCOM shareholder who is intrigued specifically about IDC's TDMA claim. What you call 'spread spectrum' in the 40's and 50's isn't CDMA. Heddy Lamar patented a frequency hopping system during the war. Direct sequence spread spectrum, where a carrier is modulated by a digital code, came much later, for military use. QCOM'S patents are based on this prior art. Your assertion, that public domain foundations imply that there are alternative paths that cast serious doubts about QCOM's ability to impose its royalty regime would equally apply to IDC would it not? w

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